Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-20

corn, and next to Gardner, T. Mcclure
has yet another 1000 acres of corn, max
ing in all $40 acres of corn in 2 solid
body.
AS business point Paul's Valley is at
present the most promising on the line.
Eighteen years sgo Messrs. Black
burn and Johnson came over
from Sherman, Tex, opened up an
establishment at this place and began
dealing in general merchandise. A few
years later they were succeeded by Miller
& Green, and after the death o. the latter
young man and trusted emplOye, Smith
Grant, was taken in as 3 partner Oy Mr..
Miller and is now running the business.
SO, in addition to its location in rich
and rapidly developing territory. Paups
Valley has long been recognized as the
source of supply for many miles around.
This will be the future shipping point
for White Bead Hill, Beef Greek,
Erin Springs, ALEX, Freds and Anadarko.
Heretofore merchandise has been freight
ed to these points, via Paul's Valley,
from CaddO, eighty-seven miles east. The
mails have heretofore been carried by
overland stage through from CadddO to
Anadsrko, 81 miles, but this too will be
changed, and Paul's Valley made the
distributing point for all of the territory
west. Good time is now made over the
stage line from Paul's Valley to Anadarko,
and when r. S. Hopkins, the
clever proprietor of the line, handed
THE GAZETTE man q card showing the
time, changes, connections, etc, ana
rendered him a free pass 10 go and come
at will, the temptation was hard to resist,
and he mentally resolved to see ii sll on
his next trip if it took all sumner.
Another mark of distinction in favor
Paul's Valley is that it is the home of the
only newspaper published il the Chicka-
saw nation. The Enterprise is hand
some seyen-CQ!Gmn weekly and was es-
tabHshed by Mes5rs. Fields & Martin
some six or eight months ago.
The territory tributary had been
Canvassed, however, before the material
was ordered, and the result was it took
several hundred copies of their first issue
TO fill subscribers orders. Since that
time it has grown rapidly in public favor
and reflects credit on the management of
its propritors, and the intelligence of the
people who are giving it their hearty sup
port. w. +. Laney,an eX-Fort Worthite,
is pushing the fsber, manipulating the
cases and making up the mails on the
Enterprise.
TWenty-three miles north of Paul's
Valley and at the end of the Gulf, Colo
RADIO and Santa Fe division of the con-
solldeted line is located the picturesque
town Of Purcell. A more beautiful site
for city would be difficult to find, stu
sted as it is on high bluff overlooking
the Canadian river snd the miles and miles
of Oklahoma territory that stretches away
to the north and east. Eighteen miles
east from Purcell stands solitary oak,
plainly seen from the town, that marks
the north boundary line of the PottOwst-
tsmie reservation. East Of this lies the
Seminole's country, and northeast the
lands of the Sac and Fox. All of this
territory, covered in living green, con-
trssted with the turbid waters of the Ca
madam river as it flows down for miles in
full view of the town, can be taken in at
q glance, and makes g picture that when
once seen is not soon forgotten. That
the soil is rich is shown by the luxuriant
growth of the grass that covers every
foot at its surface, and if it is ever
opened for settlement and brought into |
cultivation the efforts of the husband |
man will be blest as in the valley already
described.
As q shipping point for cattle Purcell /
will perhaps take first rank among the |
towns of the Territory on the line. The /
country tributary to this place is not so |
thickly populated as around Paul's /
Valley, but by bridging the Washits /
some eighteen or twenty miles to the /
west a large amount of trade can be /
brought in from the valley, which added /
to their stock trade will give to the Pur-
cell people an immense business for
4 baby town Missouri, Kansas and !
Texas have so far furnished the |
people 20 make Purcell town, and among
The last named are Messrs. Davidson and |
from Gainesville, Davis from /
Sherman and L. W. Odell from Sommer-
vile. Three or four substantial business
houses have been erected and others are .
n process of construction. Telegraph .
md express offices have been established /
and an application for q postoffice has /
been forwarded TO Washington.